Used to make the classic high school “Vesuvian volcano" chemistry example. Also used in dying, pigments, photography, engraving, lithography, oil purification and picking. Ammonium dichromate is also a precursor to the manufacture of chromium dioxide - a superior quality magnetic media compound used in the production of data storage tapes.

Used as a pigment and in vulcanizing rubber. It is used as a yellow pigment in glass and porcelain in combination with antimony oxides. Also used in the manufacture of brake linings, various alloys and infrared photography.

Used in the production of television glass, pressed glass, glazes, enamel frits, ceramics, and electroceramics. Also known as witherite, it is used for the preparation of rat poison. 98.0% purity, minimum.

Mainly used in the purification of Brine solution in caustic chlorine plants, in the manufacture of heat treatment salts, case hardening of steel, in the manufacture of pigments, in the manufacture of other Barium Salts, Blanc Fix, Barium Hydroxide, etc. It is also used as flux in the manufacture of magnesium metal, making color kinescope, magnetic-materials, fluorescent glass and ceramics. It also has uses has an insecticide and rat poison and it’s used to tan and finish leather. Barium-based dyes are widely used in inks, paints, cosmetics and drugs..

Mainly used in the purification of Brine solution in caustic chlorine plants, in the manufacture of heat treatment salts, case hardening of steel, in the manufacture of pigments, in the manufacture of other Barium Salts, Blanc Fix, Barium Hydroxide, etc. It is also used as flux in the manufacture of magnesium metal, making color kinescope, magnetic-materials, fluorescent glass and ceramics. It also has uses has an insecticide and rat poison and it’s used to tan and finish leather. Barium-based dyes are widely used in inks, paints, cosmetics and drugs..

Used for manufacturing photographic papers, artificial ivory, cellophane, filler for rubber, linoleum, oil cloth, polymeric fibers and resins, paper, lithographic inks, and as a water-color pigment for colored paper in wallpaper. It can be used as a size for modifying the colors of other pigments, in heavy concrete for radiation shield and as a radio contrast agent for X-ray imaging.

Used in health spas for facial masks and full body wraps for deep dermal cleansing and rejuvenation because it purifies the skin by removing oils and impurities. Bentonite powder is added to soap at trace to help oily skin or as an additive in shaving soap. It’s also useful in the process of winemaking, where it is used to remove excessive amounts of protein from white wines. Used for binding foundry sand, absorbing grease, oil, and animal wastes, pelletizing taconite iron ore, and improving the properties of many drilling muds. Specialty uses of bentonite include serving as an ingredient for ceramics; waterproofing and sealing in civil engineering projects (e.g., blocking seepage loss from landfill sites, nuclear waste repositories, irrigation ditches, treatment ponds, and the like); serving as a filler, stabilizer, or extender in adhesives, paints, cosmetics, medicines, and other products, as a carrier in pesticides and fertilizers, and as a bonding agent in animal feeds.

Used in health spas for facial masks and full body wraps for deep dermal cleansing and rejuvenation because it purifies the skin by removing oils and impurities. Bentonite powder is added to soap at trace to help oily skin or as an additive in shaving soap. It’s also useful in the process of winemaking, where it is used to remove excessive amounts of protein from white wines. Used for binding foundry sand, absorbing grease, oil, and animal wastes, pelletizing taconite iron ore, and improving the properties of many drilling muds. Specialty uses of bentonite include serving as an ingredient for ceramics; waterproofing and sealing in civil engineering projects (e.g., blocking seepage loss from landfill sites, nuclear waste repositories, irrigation ditches, treatment ponds, and the like); serving as a filler, stabilizer, or extender in adhesives, paints, cosmetics, medicines, and other products, as a carrier in pesticides and fertilizers, and as a bonding agent in animal feeds.

It is mostly as an antiseptic and in antifungal ointment and in insect repellant. It’s also used as a down-hole drilling mud additive, in the synthesis of dyestuffs, in perfumes and herbicides, as a corrosion inhibitor, as a laboratory reagent, and as a standard in analytical chemistry.

Used as an antiseptic only for minor burns or cuts and is sometimes used in dressings or salves or is applied in a very dilute solution as an eye wash. It can be used to treat yeast and fungal infections, also used as prevention of athlete's foot, by inserting powder in the socks or stockings, and in solution can be used to treat some kinds of otitis externa (ear infection) in both humans and animals. In the jewelry industry, boric acid is often used in combination with denatured alcohol to reduce surface oxidation and firescale from forming on metals during annealing and soldering operations. It has also been used as a pesticide and flame redardant.

Used as the main ingredient in antacids as well as many calcium supplements. Known as whiting in ceramics/glazing applications, where it is used as a common ingredient for many glazes. Commonly called chalk as it has been a major component of blackboard chalk.

Uses include Blackboard chalk, Cement, Drywall, Plaster, Dental modes, Surgical casts, Paint filler, Toothpaste, Molds for Casting metals, Agricultural soil amendment, Solidifying earth, Improving mineral content of brewing water, Dietary calcium additives in breads and cereals, and Pharmaceuticals. Also used as a source of sulfur and calcium in animal feeds, it’s the best available ingredient for use in increasing the water hardness levels in areas where fish, plankton, and algae live.

Chlorinated paraffins are used as secondary plasticizers for polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Chlorinated paraffins are also used as extreme pressure additives in metal-machining fluids or as metal-working lubricants or cutting oils because of their viscous nature, compatibility with oils, and property of releasing hydrochloric acid at elevated temperatures. They are added to paints, coatings and sealants to improve resistance to water and chemicals, which is most suitable when they are used in marine paints, as coatings for industrial flooring, vessels and swimming pools and as road marking paints.

Used in the ceramic industry for imparting blue, green or red tints in glasses, glazes and enamels. It is occasionally employed for incorporation in mineral supplements for insuring against an insufficiency of copper in the diet of animals. Among its other uses is the preparation of cuprammonium hydroxide solutions for the rayon industry. It can also used for Welding fluxes for bronze and as an exciter in phosphor mixtures.

Used as a thickener in cosmetics. Guar Gum powder is a very versatile product and finds is used in a score of industrial applications, as thickening, sizing agent, wet-end strength additive, gelling agent and water barrier, flocculation aid, for waste water treatment, as emulsifier, binder. Also used for mud formulations, enhanced oil recovery, polymer flooding, well treatment, lost circulation plugging etc.

Used in ceramic applications, particularly in glazing. Iron oxides, along with oxides of other metals, provide the colours in some glazes after being fired at a high temperature. It’s also used as pigments and in the manufacture of steel, green heat-absorbing glass, and enamels.

Used mainly as a pigment for rubber, paints, paper, ceramics, glass, in the manufacture of electrical resistors and semiconductors, magnets and magnetic tapes. It’s also used as a pigment in cosmetics and a common coloring agent in ceramics.

Used as the black pigment in paints and inks since prehistoric times, and is still widely used in printing inks, toners for xerography, laser printers, and in the chemical industry. It is also used as food coloring, e.g. in liquorice sweets. The black color of rubber tires is due to the use of lampblack as an ingredient in their vulcanisation.

Used in flooring, fireproofing, fire extinguishing compositions, cosmetics, dusting powder, and toothepaste. Other applications are as filler material, smoke suppressant in plastics, a reinforcing agent in neoprene rubber, a drying agent, and color retention in floods. In addition, high purity magnesium carbonate is used as antacid and as an additive in table salt to keep it free flowing. It is also used for clarifying liquids by filtration in tooth and face powders, in polishing compounds, manufacture mineral waters, pigments, and paper fillers for rubber.

Used for rust removal; as a constituent of metal cleaners with rust protection; as a non-abrasive brass cleaner; to bleach wood; in metal treatment (e.g. in coatings for the protection of stainless steel, nickel alloys, chromium steel alloys, and titanium and in the anodizing of aluminum); for the cleaning of materials for electronic devices; for the separation and recovery of rare-earth elements; in textile cleaning; as a mordant for the printing and dyeing of wool and cotton; as a catalyst in the manufacture of wrinkle-free and permanent-press fabrics; for flameproofing of cellulosic fabrics; in bleaching of pulp, cork, wood, straw, cane, and waxes; in the tanning and bleaching of leather; as a leather cleaner--(Use 1 tsp. in a pint of water. Cleaning leather with oxalic acid will bleach it a little); for marble polishing; as a raw material of various agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals; for the manufacture of oxalates; as a reagent in organic synthesis; and as an analytical reagent. It is also used for the production of cobalt; for the extraction of tungsten from ore; for the manufacture of zirconium and beryllium oxide; in the preparation of small particles or powders used for magnetic recording tape; as a polymerization initiator; in photography; in the production of inks, pigments and paints; for removing calcium in waste water treatment; and for the stabilization of sodium hydrosulfite and hydrocyanic acid; antifungal for bees.

Used as fire proofing in airplanes, ships, electrical cables etc. Used in primer for metals & pipe lines, as an additive in general maintenance paints, Swimming pool paints and chemical resistance paints.

Used for vinyl siding, magnetic stripe cards, window profiles, gramophone records, pipe, plumbing and conduit fixtures, bean bags; and, in its soft form, for clothing, upholstery, flooring, roofing membranes, electrical cables, and lightweight hobby artillery. The material is often used for pipelines in the water and sewer industries because of its inexpensive nature and flexibility.

Used as a food preservative in both carbonated and non-carbonated beverages, fruit and fruit juices, syrups, jams and jellies, prepared salads, tomato-based products, margarine, olives, pickles, and other condiments. 99.0% purity.

Used as a corrosion inhibitor. It is also used in manufacturing of other potassium/chromium compounds. It is the preferred compound for cleaning laboratory glassware of any possible organics. Also has important uses in photography and in photographic screen printing as well being used to introduce Chromium oxide into low temperature glazes to achieve colors such as red for ceramics.

Used as a fertilizer. It is also a main component in stump remover; it accelerates the natural decomposition of the stump. It has also been used in the manufacture of ice cream and can be found in some toothpastes for sensitive teeth. It is sometimes used in medicine as a diuretic.

This is very high quality, 99.4-99.7% pure technical grade potassium nitrate, manufactured by Haifa. The mesh size is about 35-120, and its consistency is like granulated sugar.

Used as a fertilizer. It is also a main component in stump remover; it accelerates the natural decomposition of the stump. It has also been used in the manufacture of ice cream and can be found in some toothpastes for sensitive teeth. It is sometimes used in medicine as a diuretic.

The consistency is like granulated sugar. Use as is if you are ball milling it to make black powder, or it can be easily milled with a cheap coffee and spice grinder or a ball mill.

Potassium perchlorate until recently was used to treat hyperthyroidism resulting from Grave's disease, and is still used diagnostically to test thyroid hormone production in some clinical settings. In addition, potassium perchlorate is used in protective breathing equipment on Air National Guard (ANG) aircraft for use in the event of depressurization, and in naval emergency escape breathing devices. Other uses of perchlorate salts include in nuclear reactors and electronic tubes, as additives in lubricating oils, in solid fuels in rockets and missiles, road flares, air-bag inflation systems, in tanning and finishing leather, as a fixer for fabrics and dyes, and in electoplating, in nuclear reactors, electronic tubes, aluminum refining, rubber manufacture, and production of paints and enamels. Commonly used in fertilizers, it’s also used for analytical chemistry, in gypsum cements, glass and aluminum manufacture.

One area of natural occurrence of potassium perchlorate is in potassium nitrate from Chile (Chile saltpeter), which may be used in chemical fertilizers originating from Chile.

Used as a fertilizer. It is also a main component in stump remover; it accelerates the natural decomposition of the stump. It has also been used in the manufacture of ice cream and can be found in some toothpastes for sensitive teeth. It is sometimes used in medicine as a diuretic.

Used to make concrete and cement and is the principal ingredient of glass. Silicon is a component of steel, and silicon carbides are important abrasives and also used in lasers. Silicon is present in pottery and enamels, and in high-temperature materials. Most bronze produced is an alloy of copper and silicon. Silicon is used for production of silicones, transistors, silicon diodes and semiconductors. It is also used as a reducing agent in high temperature reactions, as well as solar batteries.

It is used as a preservative in cosmetic products and as a corrosion inhibitor in automotive and other antifreeze products. It is utilized in a wide range of preservative applications due to its antimicrobial action combined with its low toxicity and low taste.

Commonly known as Baking Soda, Sodium Bicarbonate is used as an antacid to treat acid indigestion and heartburn. A paste from baking soda can be very effective when used in cleaning and scrubbing. It’s used in toothpaste to gently remove stains, whiten teeth, and freshen breath. Applied to the skin it helps remove body odors as it absorbs chemicals. It is used in combination with acidic compounds as a leavening agent in baking. Formerly, it was used as a source of carbon dioxide for soda water. Sodium bicarbonate is used as a fire-suppression agent in some dry powder fire extinguishers. Other applications include air pollution control, abrasive blasting for removal of surface coatings, chemical manufacturing, leather tanning, oil well drilling fluids, rubber and plastic manufacturing, paper manufacturing, textile processing, and water treatment.

Used in glass and pottery enamel, and as a food preservative (such as in hot dogs), also use as a fertilizer. It’s added to concrete in order to obtain special properties. It's used in gunsmithing in solution as a blueing agent. Used as a constituent of heat transfer salts (tempering salts and quenching salts) in many sectors of industry and used for the production of anticorrosion agents.

40% concentration (+3.0 weight ratio) used in in cements, textile and lumber processing. Sodium silicate is used, along with magnesium silicate in muffler repair paste. It can be used in older automobiles to seal leaks in the cooling system. Sodium silicate was also used as an egg preservation agent in the early 20th Century with large success. Used as a timber treatment for pressure-treated wood. Used to treat concrete to help to significantly reduce porosity in most masonry products such as concrete, stucco, plasters. It is a useful binder of solids, such as vermiculite and can be used to make hard, high-temperature insulation boards used for refractories, passive fire protection and high temperature insulations. It’s also used in soaps as an alkali. Also used as an old-time wadding seal for shotgun shells.

Mainly used for the manufacture of detergents and in the Kraft process of paper pulping. It is used as a "fining agent", to help remove small air bubbles from molten glass. It also fluxes the glass, and prevents scum formation of the glass melt during refining. It is important in the manufacture and dyeing of textiles. It is an ingredient of various stock foods and remedies, probably because of its mild laxative properties. Other miscellaneous uses include carpet fresheners and starch manufacture. It is also useful in the production of synthetic sponges.

Useful as an ingredient in making candles, soaps, plastics, oil pastel, cosmetics and for softening rubber. It is also useful as a parting compound when making plaster castings from a plaster piece mold or waste mold and when making the mold from a shellaced clay original.

A basic raw material for the manufacture of strontium salts. Mainly applied in cathode-ray tubes (TVs), sugar refinery, electromagnet and strontium ferrite. Can be used for the production of paper, pharmaceutical products, fluorescent glass and reagents. Also called carbonic acid, it’s used in ceramic glazes and enamel frits.

Used to produce iridescence in glass and pottery glazes, and can also be used as a fining agent (to remove bubbles in the molten glass) in crystal glass. Sodium sulfate is also used as a fining agent and analytic reagent.

Elemental sulfur is used in black powder, gunpowder, matches, pyrotechnics, and fireworks; in the vulcanization of rubber; in plant nutrition as a plant supplement and as a fungicide, insecticide, and fumigant; in the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers; as a medicine in the treatment of certain skin diseases and as a pain suppressant in the bleaching of teeth; in bleaching dried fruits; and in paper products manufacture. The principal use of sulfur, however, is in the preparation of its compounds. The most important sulfur compound is sulfuric acid. Other important compounds include sulfur dioxide, used as a bleaching agent, disinfectant, and refrigerant; sodium bisulfite, used in paper manufacture; carbon disulfide, an important organic solvent; hydrogen sulfide, sulfur trioxide, and thionyl chloride, used as reagents in chemistry; Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate), used as a laxative, used to bleach hair on clydesdales, bath additive, exfoliant, and magnesium supplement in plant nutrition; the numerous other sulfate compounds; and sulfa drugs.

Flour (not the same as "flowers"). Ours is 99.9% pure and has a very low acid content.

Used as a non-stick coating on cookware, in laminates for floor protection and as a dry lubricant. Used in nail polish to protect nails from chipping and wear and on glasses to improve clarity. Designed for use as an additive in other materials to impart low-surface energy and other fluoropolymer attributes. In particular, it has been found well suited for use in inks and coatings where a narrow particle size distribution is desired. With plastics and elastomers, it provides improved lubricity and wear resistance. Added to lubricants, it can enhance performance under severe conditions.

Used as a soil extender, as filler in a plastic resin matrix, animal feed filler, oil and water solidification, toilet seats, decking, marina products, and automotive components. Some other interesting uses of wood meal include cleaning of furs where it is a mild abrasive and oil absorbent, it is also an abrasive in soaps - especially those used by mechanics, and relatively coarse wood meal is used in silverware cleaners. Other uses include doorknobs, ornaments, and molded furniture parts.

Mainly used as a protective coating of other metals, such as iron and steel. It is often alloyed with other metals, e.g., aluminium, copper, titanium and magnesium, to impart a variety of properties and mainly used for casting and for wrought applications. Further important applications are in dye-casting, and the construction industry. Zinc dust is a widely used catalyst; it is also used as a reducing and precipitating agent in organic and analytical chemistry. Inorganic zinc compounds have various applications, e.g., for automotive equipment, storage and dry-cell batteries and organ pipes.